This week, we got a glimpse of the ongoing conflict between the Big Ten and the SEC that will most likely keep the College Football Playoff at 12 teams next year.

Mississippi State president Mark Keenum, who heads the CFP board of managers, went on “The Paul Finebaum Show” on Friday and made it clear the SEC doesn’t want a playoff with multiple automatic qualifiers for power conferences. The Big Ten does.

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If they can’t agree, nothing will get done and another year of talking about how to expand the Playoff will lie ahead. With four weekends of football left until selection day, this CFP race is setting up to show why each conference is taking the stance it does.

What we learned about the CFP in Week 11 is the SEC’s chances of getting at least four teams in are going up, and the Big Ten’s hopes of getting more than three in are going down.

B1G day

It was a heck of a day of football in the Big Ten.

The conference had the catch of the day by Indiana’s Omar Cooper Jr. and the throw of the day by Oregon’s Dante Moore as the No. 2 Hoosiers and ninth-ranked Ducks registered thrilling road wins with late-game dramatics.

THE MOST INSANE TOE TAP YOU'LL SEE ALL SEASON Omar Cooper Jr. take a bow 👏@IndianaFootball pic.twitter.com/07MncUCK4d — FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) November 8, 2025

There was a Top 25 upset with No. 23 Washington falling to Wisconsin in Madison, and the Big Ten’s two Heisman Trophy contenders, Ohio State’s Julian Sayin and Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza, bolstered their resumes.

As entertaining as it was, especially for those who